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Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
Eighth person in Trump Tower meeting is identified — An American-based employee of a Russian real estate company took part in a June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between a Russian lawyer and Donald Trump Jr., bringing to eight the number of known participants at the session that has emerged …
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Wall Street Journal:
The Trumps and the Truth — The best defense against future revelations is radical transparency. — Even Donald Trump might agree that a major reason he won the 2016 election is because voters couldn't abide Hillary Clinton's legacy of scandal, deception and stonewalling.
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Pamela Brown / CNN:
First on CNN: Special Counsel investigators seeking info from ‘eighth man’ at Trump Tower meeting — Washington (CNN)Special counsel investigators are seeking information from the still-publicly unidentified eighth person who attended the June 2016 meeting with Donald Trump Jr. at Trump Tower …
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Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:
The Master of ‘Kompromat’ Believed to Be Behind Trump Jr.'s Meeting — MOSCOW — The salacious video, of a naked man in bed with two women, was one of the most prominent examples of “kompromat,” the Russian art of spreading damaging information to discredit a rival or an enemy, in recent Russian history.
Los Angeles Times:
A California businessman born in the former Soviet Union also attended Trump Jr. meeting
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Malia Zimmerman / Fox News:
Hillary Clinton sided with Russia on sanctions as Bill made $500G on Moscow speech
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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Trump blindsided by implosion of GOP health care bill — President Donald Trump convened a strategy session over steak and succotash at the White House with senators Monday night, trying to plot an uphill path to repealing Obamacare and replacing it with a GOP alternative.
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Molly Ball / The Atlantic:
Republicans Aren't Turning on Trump—They're Turning on Each Other — The House is mad at the Senate. The Senate is mad at the House. Various factions in the House and Senate are mad at each other or mad at their leaders. — Republican lawmakers have yet to turn on President Trump in any meaningful way.
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Thomas Kaplan / New York Times:
Health Care Overhaul Collapses as Two Republican Senators Defect — WASHINGTON — Two more Republican senators declared on Monday night that they would oppose the Senate Republican bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act, killing, for now, a seven-year-old promise to overturn President Barack Obama's signature domestic achievement.
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Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
GOP health care bill collapses
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Thomas Kaplan / New York Times:
‘Plan C’ on Obamacare, Repeal Now and Replace Later, Has Collapsed
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Dylan Scott / Vox:
The last-ditch Obamacare repeal plan looks dead in the Senate
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: After Senate bill falls apart, Republicans don't have the votes to repeal Obamacare
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Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Old Truth Trips Up G.O.P. on Health Law: A Benefit Is Hard to Retract
Wall Street Journal:
GOP Senate Leader Mitch McConnell Abandons Health-Care Bill
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Trump blames Dems, ‘a few Republicans’ for collapse of healthcare bill
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Marina Fang / HuffPost:
Steve Bannon Reportedly Attacked Paul Ryan As ‘A Limp-D**k Motherf**ker’ — What? — Steve Bannon reportedly called House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) “a limp-dick motherf**ker who was born in a petri dish at the Heritage Foundation,” referring to the think tank whose fiscal conservative policies the representative espouses.
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
House GOP unveils budget plan that attaches major spending cuts to coming tax overhaul bill — House Republicans unveiled a 2018 budget plan Tuesday that would pave the way for ambitious tax reform legislation — but only alongside a package of politically sensitive spending cuts that threaten …
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Niv Elis / The Hill:
Conservative caucus withholding support from Republican budget
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Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
Trump Just Came Very Close to Killing the Iran Deal — At the last minute, the president nearly told Tillerson not to certify Iranian compliance. — Under President Barack Obama this kind of thing was routine. Since the Iran nuclear deal was reached in 2015, every few months …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump Recertifies Iran Nuclear Deal, but Only Reluctantly — WASHINGTON — President Trump agreed on Monday to certify again that Iran is complying with an international nuclear agreement that he has strongly criticized, but only after hours of arguing with his top national security advisers …
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
As Party Drifts Left, Pragmatic Democratic Governors Have Eye on White House — PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Many elected Democrats have drifted left since the party's shattering defeat last November, turning to a brand of progressive politics that is closer to Senator Bernie Sanders's democratic socialism …
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John McCormick / Bloomberg:
Finally, a Poll Trump Will Like: Clinton Is Even More Unpopular — Views on Democratic nominee harden since exit from spotlight — Obama now as popular as he was in first year in White House — For a president with historically low poll numbers, Donald Trump can at least find solace in this: Hillary Clinton is doing worse.
Ben Strauss / Politico:
Is the President Fit? — Few props have been more indispensable to Donald Trump's presidency than the golf cart. He drives them on his frequent weekend trips to the links (invariably at Trump-owned clubs, where he rolls onto the greens, too—normally a no-no).
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Lydia Wheeler / The Hill:
Kamala Harris slams Sessions on criminal justice — Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) slammed Attorney General Jeff Sessions — for his tough-on-crime policies during an event early Tuesday focused on the rising rate of women in the nation's prisons. — Harris, a key speaker at Women Unshackled …
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Michael Rothfeld / Wall Street Journal:
New York Seeks Bank Records of Former Trump Associate Paul Manafort — Loans issued by a bank run by former campaign adviser Steve Calk are focus of subpoena — New York prosecutors have demanded records relating to up to $16 million in loans that a bank run by a former campaign adviser …
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The Daily Beast:
Trump's Campaign Conceded in a Memo That Comey Was Having Major Impact … Donald Trump's presidential campaign acknowledged in an internal memo that former FBI Director James Comey's 11th hour decision to reopen an inquiry into Hillary Clinton's use of private email helped shift the results.
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